Chicago Tribune June 29, 2008 Jun. 29--In yoga, the hips do more than help us stand and move; they store some of our emotional baggage. Loosen them up through a series of physical postures, and you might feel an inexplicable urge to weep. Source: PsycPORT.com | 29 Jun 2008 | 2:25 pm
Medicare Rights Center President Robert M. Hayes today expressed frustration and disappointment that 39 Republican senators continue to block passage of bipartisan legislation that would stabilize payments and access to doctors serving people with Medicare and improve Medicare benefits, particularly for those living on low incomes. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Jun 2008 | 12:00 pm
Morbidly obese patients who undergo a particular type of gastric bypass surgery called Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) are at an increased risk of developing kidney stones - small, pebble-like deposits that can result in severe pain and require an operation to remove them - earlier than previously thought. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Jun 2008 | 12:00 pm
New research published in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows that improving the university recruitment strategy and process could raise the number of women faculty in medicine. The study also suggests that specific procedural steps could assist in identifying and actively recruiting qualified women for faculty positions in surgery departments. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Jun 2008 | 11:00 am
Place yourself in the shoes of health care workers who aren't able to reach the people who need their help during a pandemic. Picture yourself as a hospital administrator, working without professional regulation and unsure of what damage the lack of policies may do to the patients under your care. Imagine yourself living in a region that is prone to violence. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Jun 2008 | 11:00 am
The pressures from an ageing population on the rising costs of healthcare in Australia will be the subject of the third annual Menzies Oration held at The Australian National University. Mr Gary Banks AO, Chairman of the Productivity Commission, discussed the escalating budgetary pressures governments face from the increase in healthcare demand and costs. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Jun 2008 | 10:00 am
Whatever your extent of hospitalisation and treatment, it can come as a shock to find how weakened you have become, when you are trying to return to normal home life. Whilst a hospital discharge plan will be designed to ensure you have the right level of home support, there are self-help nutritional considerations that can aid recovery and continued independent living. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Jun 2008 | 10:00 am
More than 80 years have passed since the German scientist Hans Spemann conducted his famous experiment that laid the foundations for the field of embryonic development. After dividing a salamander embryo in half, Spemann noticed that one half - specifically, the half that gives rise to the salamander's 'belly' (ventral) starts to wither away. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Jun 2008 | 9:00 am
The development of fexinidazole for the treatment of African trypanosomiasis, commonly known as "sleeping sickness", by DNDi (Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative), along with Accelera, a business unit of Nerviano Medical Sciences (NMS), is to be honoured as one of DNDi's Success Stories of the Year. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Jun 2008 | 9:00 am
Celsion Corporation (NASDAQ: CLN) announced today that the interim results from its second Phase I liver cancer confirmation study of ThermoDox in combination with Radio Frequency Ablation (RFA) treating patients with primary and metastatic liver cancer were presented at both Oral and Poster presentation at the WCIO 2008 and Best of ASCO® conference. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Jun 2008 | 8:00 am
Stanford University School of Medicine researchers received approximately $5.6 million on June 27 from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in awards designed to support the creation of new pluripotent human stem cell lines. All four of Stanford's applicants were funded. The researchers received multiyear grants of about $1.4 million each as part of CIRM's newest round of awards. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Jun 2008 | 8:00 am
The Ottoman-style mansions, with Venetian windows, arches and lavish gardens that once epitomised Beirut are being levelled one after the other as high-rises mushroom across the capital. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Jun 2008 | 4:59 am
Though America stands poised for its first black president in history, the fashion world descending on Paris for this week's couture-show summit will be treated yet again to a "white-out"... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Jun 2008 | 4:33 am
HealthDay - FRIDAY, June 27 (HealthDay News) -- Long-anticipated results from
a trial on an experimental Alzheimer's therapy look promising, at least in
a certain group of patients. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 29 Jun 2008 | 3:46 am
China, already a formidable powerhouse in ready-to-wear fashion, has broken into the elite circle of French haute couture, with the first Chinese designer due to unveil her collection for... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Jun 2008 | 2:18 am
Czech police were forced to intervene after right-wing extremists attempted to disrupt a "gay parade" in the country's second city, Brno, on Saturday, leading to 15 arrests, police said. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Jun 2008 | 7:42 pm
Bulgarian police arrested 60 people Saturday opposed to Bulgaria's first gay pride march after they tried to storm the small group of about 100 marchers in the capital Sofia, the interior... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Jun 2008 | 7:30 pm
The River Seine became the newest way to get around Paris on Saturday with the inauguration of a commuter boat service using blue-and-green catamarans that can carry up to 70 passengers. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Jun 2008 | 5:21 pm
Syrian archaeologists have unearthed a hieroglyph close to Damascus which dates back to the pharaonic period around 1,300 years BC, the official SANA news agency reported on Saturday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Jun 2008 | 5:12 pm
